This article is terrible, but this is the plot of multiple pieces of sci fi media. In cyberpunk 2077 you have “soulkiller” which is a program that extracts the entire contents of someone’s mind to an “engram” that can be used to interact with their consciousness after death. And the black mirror episode “San Junipero” is about people uploading their consciousness to continue to exist after death. While it’s a dumb gimmick in its current state, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see this become a thing in the future.
Technically I already made a locally running chatbot of myself my gf has access to trained on my early messages with her using a GitHub project I found and changed a file or two in, so does that render me immortal in some capacity? Would I make money from this by preying on the vulnerable if I was a vulture capitalist?
vulture capatalist is a phrase referring to groups that watch for collapsing systems that then go in and make investments when prices are low, such as when a country’s housing market collapses. its not a blanket perjorative for people who try to make money.
TIL. Had no idea it was even already a term but should’ve guessed as much. Maybe I could spin it to say society as a whole is collapsing, and human life has a low value right now?
Note my WhatsApp chats were nothing like this dude’s format, they were actually way way worse and had little to deliminate by in the loose text file it exported out to, so I had to write my own very dirty code to recreate the files, it’s way easier with Telegram chat exports and I should’ve just done that so just sayin’ YMMV.
I’ll probably share my code once I get the actual telegram bot API integration all cleaned up and add some features
I’ve been planning on rewriting some of the training code also but I hardly really understand this stuff, my ML knowledge ends with simple classifiers
Just as the company who’s offering the service is motivated by the all consuming need to make money, so to is the journalist strives to make click bait to drive revenue. So the wheel turns.
This service is creepy as hell though, anything that’s literally a black mirror episode should probably be reconsidered as a product or service.
The real problem is the target demographic, which is vulnerable and desperate people. Everyone who would use this app logically on some level knows it won’t help them, but that’s just not something that will matter to a person in grief.
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